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I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. -- Ruth Rendell
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. -- Alan Bleasdale
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. -- Martin Seligman
From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise. -- Suzanne Somers
Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning. -- Naveen Jain
Fortunately, I'm very healthy, and my body is still intact. It hasn't aged very much, I feel like a very young 56. I exercise regularly, and when I do, I always learn new things about my body. -- Steven Bauer
Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body. -- Michael Merzenich
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. -- A. N. Wilson
Many of the people I work with that are half my age complain that they feel tired all the time. I tell them: 'Look at what you're eating, how much you are exercising, and how much sleep you are getting.' -- David H. Murdock
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should. -- Ian Mckellen
I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently. -- Connie Britton
I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour. -- Magnus Scheving
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture. -- Sarah Parish
Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion. -- Laurence J. Peter
I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me. -- Mark Twain
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution -- Abraham Lincoln
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. -- Philip Sidney
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature. -- Lionel Trilling
I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise. -- George W. Bush
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. -- Gore Vidal
Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul. -- Bikram Choudhury

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